I read a study printed in the Times that quantifies how many minutes every cocktail we drink takes off our lives. Which hit me as darkly funny while living through Trump's reign of evil. Like, seriously? THIS is what you want us to worry about right now?? It also considers the absurdity of doctors' offices—which bring out my rebellious streak. My doctor is a very patient man.
Erin Belieu on "Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease" |
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Yi Sang: Selected Works
"Yi Sang’s Korean and Japanese poems, essays, and stories address imperialism, war, childhood, art, and capitalism; they take units of language and spin them into larger webs. Because language refers to language, it can be spun into poetry; because it refers to creatures and events, it can be spun into story; because it refers to the self and its experiences, it can be spun into essay."
via HARVARD REVIEW |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jonathan Stalling on "Spring Snow"
"The most influential genre of Classical Chinese Poetry is called ‘regulated verse’ (各路诗), and these forms gather the world into words and refold them into inter-resonant patterns on a cosmological scale. Each monosyllabic word must be stacked in relation to the one before and after, above and below until the whole rests upon a final balanced point, as relaxed and exact as a cairn of transparent quartz." |
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